President Arayik Harutyunyan signed a decree on appointing Davit Hakobyan as First Deputy Chief of Office of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) President.

Hakobyan is specialized in international development, with 30 years of experience in the field. He has been a high-ranking United Nations official for the past 26 years. Most notably, he has held in recent years the position of the UNDP permanent representative in Syria, and before that, deputy permanent representative in Afghanistan, Somalia and Kyrgyzstan.

Davit Hakobyan coordinated and implemented in several dozen countries UN-led large-scale humanitarian and development projects aimed at overcoming towards overcoming the humanitarian crisis in those countries, sustainable development, improving the quality of life of the people.

In 1981-91, Hakobyan was involved into research works, and is author to about 40 articles on laser physics.

He holds the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Davit Hakobyan speaks Armenian, Russian, and English.

The aforesaid decree will come into force on April 1.